We've been investigating what the Urban Olympic project would look like as an 27 unit apartment building. Â One potentially excited twist on the building is that we have split the bulk into two volumes with a 18' wide courtyard atrium. Â The atrium and circulation are exterior, so we can apply another 2000 S.F.for an extra 3 units and still come in under the FAR limit.

We also did a first run at some energy modeling, using Archicad's EcoDesigner program, and feel that given the bulk it would be fairly straight forward to achieve the Passive House standard, but the return on investment is better if we design to the envelop to Washington State Energy Code, add solar hot water, switch the lighting to LEDs, and add an ERV.